The Interactive History Company

Renaissance England   What's in a name? - Quite a bit, actually.  What's in that ink bottle? The potential for poems, plays …and treason.  Learn to write a sonnet, recite some Shakespeare (or Marlowe or Johnson). Put on a play, escape the Plague, Apprentice to a weaver, tailor, midwife or tavern keeper. Play the games of court, or chance the games of politics. Spin a thread or Weave a Dance; Act a part or Party at a merchant's faire...  Sing away your sorrow and chance your fortune into another's purse.  Revel in the golden sunshine of the first Tudor Queen... even if ankle deep in mud.

Robyn Plaeyr - Shakespearean Actor  - At work extracting a sonnet from a large group of High School Language Arts students

 The apprentices of Renaissance London passed what little free time they might have playing running games such as "Tierce" and socialized while weaving through the dance of the double-bransle.   Through IHC's programs, students realize their own modern experiences can connect to those of kids from every era and by recognizing their similarities, they may also better understand their differences as well.

School Assembly Programs What in Blazes!?!
   - A Romp through Shakespeare’s Words

Multi-Media Intro to The English Renaissance:
   - Exploring the Elizabethan World - 'Out of our senses...'

Ballads & Stories of the Renaissance
 
First-Person Interactive Performance
   *“Robyn Player – Shakespearean Actor”

Focus-on-History© Classes
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• *A Sonnet by Any Other Name
• *Astronomical! – Science in the Renaissance
• *Figuring out Shakespeare
• Games & Pastimes of Merry Olde England
• Kerchief to Sail – Making Textiles in the 16th  Century
• The Merry Maypole
  
• *Physician – Heal Thyself! – 16th Century Medicine 
• Renaissance Dances
• *Strategies of Battle and Court
• *Theater – Shakespeare’s Craft

 Living History Workshop

Living History as an English Apprentice

Hands–on-History Market Faire

The Renaissance Merchant Fair
 

*Classes asterisked are particularly recommended for the Middle School, High School and Community College Humanities teacher presenting material related to Shakespeare or the period of the Renaissance.  These programs encompass a delightful and engaging introduction to Elizabethan England and the culture that nurtured the genius of the likes of John Milton, Christopher Marlowe & of course, the "Bard" himself, William Shakespeare.  Programs also explore the lives of  prominent statesmen and military leaders like Francis Bacon & Admiral Drake.